But earlier this year, all that history went kablooey when Lucasfilm announced that it would reboot the canon and that the new cinematic trilogy would not necessarily be beholden to the oft-convoluted ...

What are word origins and definition? The word “meme” (/miːm/) comes from the ancient Greek word “mīmēma” which means “that is limited”. In 1976, biologist Richard Dawkins used for the first time in ...

It seems like we’re all mini-meme factories. There are the stories packaged as BuzzFeed memes, the endlessly-looping Vines and Instagrams, the reaction GIFs – basically anything that has been ...

Richard Dawkins first coined the word “meme” in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins wrote that just as evolution depends on self-replicating genes as the biological unit of transmission in species ...

The evolution of language continues to be closely influenced by digital spaces and online behavior, and this influence is increasingly being formalized. In 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary added over ...

There’s a new meme on Twitter that’s turning traditional “red flags” into something much more lighthearted. If you recently scrolled through your feed and noticed a bunch of tweets containing ...

Slang with younger generations is always changing. But throughout 2025, there's been one phrase, or number, that seems to have stumped countless people as they've seen "six-seven" take the internet by ...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is handily the best superhero movie of the past decade. It’s also one of the rare superhero movies to actually derive formal pleasure from its comic book origins.

Wifejak was initially created as a way to gently poke fun at married women and their interactions with their husbands. Although it was initially created by a woman, it became frequently used by men, ...